13-year-old Jane, whose quiet life with her two aunts is interrupted by sporadic visits from her seafaring father, tries to learn more about her half brother and sister after discovering that hare father remarried 10 years ago.

Petra X says the ending is stupid - since I have an acquaintanceship with a similar situation I want to see for myself.
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Done. Well, stupid is a strong word, but it is an odd book, with implausibilities throughout and especially at the end. It's also so big on the Show Don't Tell that I didn't understand everything that happened, everything that people felt or why they made the choices they did. Otoh, the parts I did understand seemed simplistic and over-explained/revealed... so I just don't know what to think of it. ( )

Interesting idea, that a man's first child who lives with her aunts, discovers that she has a younger brother and sister and how she goes about finding them and what, traumatically and with lots of red herrings, happens. The ending is just plain stupid. Would anyone having found their family and getting on well with their half-siblings just say oh well, nice to have known them, back to life-as-it-was-before more or less? Nah... ( )

Has stamp "PULP COPIES" inside front cover.